ANATOMY OF A ROBOT

Why do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and textual implications of our perennial projections of humanity onto figures such as robots, androids, cyborgs and auto mata. In an engaging, sophisticated and accessible presentation, Despina Kakoudaki argues that, in their narrative and cultural depl oyment, artificial people demarcate what it means to be human. They perform this function by offering us a non-human version of ours elves as...[Read more]